Conversion Concepts for Commercial Applications and Disposal Technologies of Energetic Systems / Edition 1

by H. Krause

Overview

A very complete survey of different approaches adopted by Eastern and Western countries for the disposal of surplus ammunition. Incineration and other techniques for the disposal of high explosives, gun and rocket propellants are introduced and discussed in relation to environmental and safety requirements. Proposals for and examples of the re-use of military explosives in commercial applications are given. Topics discussed range from the conversion of energetic systems into chemical raw materials to the new development of energetic systems with special features for commercial use (such as producing artificial diamonds by detonation, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis, fire extinguishing, etc.).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048148806
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	04/06/2011
Series:	NATO ASI Series , #14
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Energetic Condensed Systems. Directions of Conversion and Ways of Use for Determination of Actual Economic, Scientific, and Technical Problems.- Disposal of Ammunition in the Federal Republic of Germany: an Overview.- Demilitarization Research and Development Technology for Conventional Munitions.- Utilization Methods for Explosives Withdrawn from Military Sks: Designing, Carrying Out and Practical Implementation.- Demilitarization Technology and Examples of Conversion.- Demilitarisation and Disposal — United Kingdom Studies and Applications.- Munitions Disposal as a Total Concept.- New Type of Artificial Diamonds and Physical — Chemical Fundamentals of Their Creation.- Comprehensive Utilization of Conventional Ammunition and Released Explosives.- Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis: History of One Initiated Conversion.- Electric Prospecting for Oil and Gas Fields Using Powerful MHD Generators.- Advanced Disposal and Recycling Technologies of Energetic Materials.- Development of Solid Propellants for Effective Fire-Extinguishing Systems.- Reformulation/Reuse of Explosives, Propellants and Pyrothechnics for Commercial Applications.- Pyrotechnic Aerosol Generating Compositions and Fire Suppressing Systems.- Usage of Explosion Technology for Recovery of Armoured Ordnance.- Problems of Trotytl (TNT) Processing into Condensation Monomers, Polymers and Dyes.- Re-Use of 155 MM HE Auxiliary Projectiles for Practice Rounds and Industrial Explosives.- Usage of Explosive Technologies for National Economy.- Industrial Explosives Based on Double-Base Propellants.- Development and Manufacturing of Charges, Including Charges on Base of Explosives Extracted During Unloading of Ammunition, for Crushing Mill Heavy Scrap and Overtyres.- Chemical and Biological Processes forDecomposition of Nitrocellulose-Based Propellants.- Use of Powders in National Economy.- Ballistite Powder as a Material Source for Polymer Varnishes, Adhesives, and Composites.- Possibilities and Experience of the Ammunition Effective Utilization on the Industrial Objects.- Abrasive Water Jet Cutting of Munitions and Explosive Incineration in a Fluidised Bed.- Processing of Energetic Materials with Supercritical Co.- Disposal of Energetic Materials by Alkaline Pressure Hydrolysis and Combined Techniques.

Editorial Reviews

The workshop was held in Moscow, Russia, in May 1994, and addressed current efforts to demilitarize conventional surplus ammunition, different approaches in the east and west to converting energetic condensed systems, new disposal techniques and routes to reuse that will solve specific conversion problems, and common research areas where defined tasks in cooperative partnerships can be initiated. Among the 28 topics are studies in Britain and their application, munitions disposal as a total concept, a new type of artificial diamonds and the physical and chemical fundamentals of their creation, the history of one initiated conversion using self-propagating high- temperature synthesis, pyrotechnic aerosol generating compositions and fire suppressing systems, using explosive technologies for the national economy, chemical and biological processes for decomposing nitrocellulose-based propellants, and processing energetic materials with supercritical carbon dioxide. Reproduced from typescripts, many double spaced. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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